Motivational Quotes

Love

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

10.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

11.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

12.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

13.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

14.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

15.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

16.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

17.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

19.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

20.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

21.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

22.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

23.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

24.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

25.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

26.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

27.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

28.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

30.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

32.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

34.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

35.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

36.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

37.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

38.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

39.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

41.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

44.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

46.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

47.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

48.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

49.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

50.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank